http://share.triangle.com/node/13453 Comments for "Conserve, Conserve, Conserve: Testimony to failure by our water utilities." en http://share.triangle.com/node/13453#comment-69350 <p>I believe that the powers that be do not want to believe or admit it but the Triangle area has reached beyond the maximum capacity for tapping into readily available water and money is most likely a primary contributing factor. As for tapping into other sources of water short of a desalination plant at the coast (which would be subject to disruptions from hurricanes, etc), or the excess runoff which is pumped out of the phosphate mines in such places as Aurora, there is no more available 'free' water that is not already being used (and rightly so protected) by other communities. Do you suppose the powers that be are feeling the pinch on their wallets and at the same time wondering how to say 'growth moratorium' in a more subtle way?</p> Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:04:46 -0500 Java55 comment 69350 at http://share.triangle.com http://share.triangle.com/node/13453 <!-- BeginContext name="blog-teaser" q="(share|communities/*)" --> The 2/1/08 N&amp;O Editorial, Our Views, was an excellent reading on the N&amp;O's, the media's in general, as well as local and state governments' mind-sets about the drought and water supply situation in Raleigh and&hellip;<!-- EndContext --> <!-- BeginContext name="blog-front" q="share/blog" --> <p>The 2/1/08 N&amp;O Editorial, Our Views, was an excellent reading on the N&amp;O's, the media's in general, as well as local and state governments' mind-sets about the drought and water supply situation in Raleigh and North Carolina. </p> <p>use is creeping up. <br />the time for drastic steps has come. <br />backsliding from their conservation ways. <br />demand near or exceeding... <br />the lake has fewer than 110 days... <br />cities...aren't issuing the...dire warnings...called for. <br />drought experts...using the term catastrophic. <br />conservations needs to be a household rule. <br />neither Raleigh nor Durham has imposed...strictest...limits. <br />Raleigh City Council...declined...surcharge...intended to cut consumption.<br />ban on irrigation and pressure washing. <br />water savings would be worthwhile as an emergency measure. <br />...every new home...means more demand on scarce water supplies. <br />...the region may look back on these days as a water conservation opportunity down the drain. </p><!-- EndContext --> <!-- BeginContext name="blog-front" q="blog" --> <p>The 2/1/08 N&amp;O Editorial, Our Views, was an excellent reading on the N&amp;O's, the media's in general, as well as local and state governments' mind-sets about the drought and water supply situation in Raleigh and North Carolina. </p> <p>use is creeping up. <br />the time for drastic steps has come. <br />backsliding from their conservation ways. <br />demand near or exceeding... <br />the lake has fewer than 110 days... <br />cities...aren't issuing the...dire warnings...called for. <br />drought experts...using the term catastrophic. <br />conservations needs to be a household rule. <br />neither Raleigh nor Durham has imposed...strictest...limits. <br />Raleigh City Council...declined...surcharge...intended to cut consumption.<br />ban on irrigation and pressure washing. <br />water savings would be worthwhile as an emergency measure. <br />...every new home...means more demand on scarce water supplies. <br />...the region may look back on these days as a water conservation opportunity down the drain. </p><!-- EndContext --> <!-- BeginContext name="blog-front" q="*" --> <p>The 2/1/08 N&amp;O Editorial, Our Views, was an excellent reading on the N&amp;O's, the media's in general, as well as local and state governments' mind-sets about the drought and water supply situation in Raleigh and North Carolina. </p> <p>use is creeping up. <br />the time for drastic steps has come. <br />backsliding from their conservation ways. <br />demand near or exceeding... <br />the lake has fewer than 110 days... <br />cities...aren't issuing the...dire warnings...called for. <br />drought experts...using the term catastrophic. <br />conservations needs to be a household rule. <br />neither Raleigh nor Durham has imposed...strictest...limits. <br />Raleigh City Council...declined...surcharge...intended to cut consumption.<br />ban on irrigation and pressure washing. <br />water savings would be worthwhile as an emergency measure. <br />...every new home...means more demand on scarce water supplies. <br />...the region may look back on these days as a water conservation opportunity down the drain. </p><!-- EndContext --> <p><a href="http://share.triangle.com/node/13453">read more</a></p> http://share.triangle.com/node/13453#comment conservation drought Raleigh solutions utilities water use Weather Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:26:40 -0500 plusaf 13453 at http://share.triangle.com